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reetrices below, brown with gray tips; remainder of under parts dull 

 green. Iris bright red; bill bright yellow; base of lower mandible, and 

 feet dark crimson ; nails dark brown. Length, 280 to 305 ; measurements 

 of three specimens give: "Wing, l-t-i to 145; tail, 104 to 105; eulmen 

 from base, 19 to 30; tarsus, 18 to 20. 



Adult female. — Forehead blue-gray; cliin black; throat and breast 

 green; dark chestnut pectoral-band, and other parts, as in the male. A 

 female from Sibuyan has the wing, 145, and tail, 104 ; a female from 

 Calayan is larger; wing, 157; tail, 114. 



Young. — Green, chin cinnamon; pectoral-band wanting or indicated by 

 a few chestnut feathers; abdomen white or washed with buff; under tail- 

 coverts slightly paler than in the adult. 



Leclancher's pigeon is generally found in forest and, although widely 

 distributed, it does not occur in great numbers, except when feeding in 

 fruit trees; it appears to be strictly arboreal in habits. Specimens from 

 C'amiguin, Calayan, and Batan are considerably larger than specimens 

 from more southern islands. The nest as observed in C'amiguin, north 

 of Luzon, was a slight platform of twigs placed on a horizontal branch at 

 from 1.5 to 4.5 meters from the ground. Four nests contained but one 

 egg eaeli. Three eggs are white in color and measure, respectively : 35 

 by 23, 35 by 25, and 31 by 24. 



Genus LAMPROTEEROX Bonaparte, 1854. 



Lainprotreron is distinguished from all other Philippine genera by 

 having the breast-feathers bifurcated, as if the tip of the shaft had been 

 cut off' of each feather. 



29. LAMPROTRERON TEM M I NCKI (Prevost and Des Miirs). 

 TEMMINCKS FRUIT PIGEON. 



Kurukuru iemminckii Prkvost and Des Murs. Vov. Venus, Zool. (1840), 



234. 

 Ptilopus femmincki Salvador!, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 115; 



]\Ieyer and Wiglesworth, Bds. Celebes (1898), 2, 613. 

 Lamprotreron temmincki Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 58; McGregor and 



Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 11. 

 Ptilopus formosus Guillemard, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1885), 269. 



Snlu (GuiUeniard) . Celebes. 



"Adult male. — General color above i^arrot-green, the inner wing-coverts, 

 scapulars, and inner quills with an oval black spot near the ends; (Jntire 

 head above aster-purple; hind neck and sides of neck dragon's-blood-red, 

 shading off into the green of the mantle ; sides of occi])ut and ear-coverts 

 green, becoming gray on malar region, chin, tliroat, and jugiilum; the 

 upper breast rose-purple, the feathers on chest and jugulum forked at 

 the tip (as if the middle part of the web had been cut out with scissors) ; 

 passing on lower breast into a broad band of blackish plum-purple; on 



